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Zhuangzi and Personal Autonomy
I apply the Zhuangzi 莊子 to assess the contemporary value of personal autonomy. Focusing on two concepts, wuwei 無為 and you 遊, I clarify the “wandering...
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Empathy in the Zhuangzi
This article investigates elements of empathy in the Zhuangzi 莊子. It outlines four prominent aspects of current scholarship on empathy: different...
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Zhuangzi and Aquinas on Simultaneous Emotions
This essay is dedicated to exploring the experience of multiple, perhaps conflicting, emotions occurring at the same time. Though this experience is...
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Mencius, Zhuangzi and “Daoism”
This chapter discusses the relation between Mencius and “Daoism” by taking Zhuangzi (and other authors of the Zhuangzi) as representative of the...
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Zhuangzi and the Issue of Human Nature
The issue of human nature or xing 性 was a major philosophical topic of the mid- and late-Warring States period of ancient China. It was famously...
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Unmaking Roles in the Zhuangzi: Performances of Compliance, Defiance, and the In-Between
Many different and contradictory claims have been made about the political dimensions (or lack thereof) of the ancient Chinese text known as the Zhuangzi...
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The Zhuangzi, creativity, and epistemic virtue
This article explores how aspects of traditional Chinese thought regarding creativity can influence and enrich contemporary thought about related...
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Can Wuwei and Ziran Authorise Anticipation?: Death, Desire, and Autonomy in the Zhuangzi
The concept of anticipation, on the one hand, has received a considerable treatment in classical phenomenology, particularly in Husserl. The Zhuangzi ,...
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A Contextualist Reconsideration of the “Happy Fish” Passage in the Zhuangzi and Its Implications for Relativism
The “happy fish” passage in the Zhuangzi 莊子 is often interpreted as endorsing some form of perspectivism which precludes objective claims of...
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Alienation and Attunement in the Zhuangzi
In this study, I clarify and defend the critique of the ‘sages’ and ‘robbers’ that is found in the Zhuangzi . As detailed in Chapter 8 of the Zhuangzi ,...
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Kill Stories: A Critical Narrative Genre in the Zhuangzi
This essay suggests that a narrative genre of “kill stories” has a prominent philosophical function in the Zhuangzi 莊子. Kill stories depict the...
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Zhuangzi and Nietzsche
There is no actual relationship at all between Zhuangzi (about 369–286 B.C.E) and Nietzsche (1844–1900) in terms of influence that the latter might...
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Language in the Zhuangzi
One of the noticeable aspects of the Zhuangzi is its unique treatment of language, which is manifested both in the way language is critically...
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The Zhuangzi and Buddhism
Indian Buddhism was assimilated into Chinese culture through Daoist terminology and in turn influenced the formation of Daoist theory. Bearing some...
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The Debate over **ng in the Outer Chapters of the Zhuangzi
Contemporary discussions of xing are often inspired by the Confucian tradition, but recent studies have brought the Zhuangzi 莊子 to the table as a...
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Two Levels of Emotion and Well-Being in the Zhuangzi
Emotion is an essential component of human nature, and therefore it is necessary to explore the issue of a desirable emotional state if we want to...
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Zhuangzi and Religious Daoism
Zhuang Zhou, the ancient thinker associated with the text Zhuangzi, in religious Daoism was honored as a recluse and stylized as an immortal, but did...
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The Zhuangzi and Wei-** Xuanxue
As is understood in modern scholarship, Xuanxue (Dark Learning) refers to the philosophies embedded in Wang Bi’s 王弼 (226–249 CE) commentaries on the...
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The Authorship of the Zhuangzi
Given our current knowledge of the nature of the composition, formation, compilation and textual history of the work titled Zhuangzi 莊子 as well as...
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The Concept of Gongsheng in Daoist Philosophy: Examples from Laozi and Zhuangzi
Using examples from the works of Laozi and Zhuangzi, this chapter discusses the connotations and characteristics of gongsheng 共生 in Daoist...